As income disparities continue to increase, and the effective tax rate paid by the rich remains at historic lows, right-wing media figures work hard to make sure none of that changes. They routinely attack the poor and programs designed to assist them, while simultaneously extolling the rich and defending them against any attempt to get them to pay their fair share of taxes.

Anonymous hackers recently released another batch of emails taken from a climate research group at the University of East Anglia in 2009, along with a document containing numbered excerpts of purportedly incriminating material. Many of these selections have been cropped in a way that completely distorts their meaning, but they were nonetheless repeated by conservative media outlets who believe climate change is a "hoax" and a "conspiracy."

On Fox Business, host Chris Cotter warned that a high number of enrollees in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, also known as food stamps) could lead to "economic dependence." But experts have said that high levels of food stamps use is a temporary side effect of the recession.

Glenn Beck may be gone from Fox News, but it looks like he has left a giant mark on the network. Five days after his final Fox News show, George Will parroted some of Beck's outlandish claims on ABC's This Week in attacks on Woodrow Wilson and progressives, who were two of Beck's most favored targets to demonize.

On Friday, it was Mike Huckabee's turn to assume the role of Beck puppet when he likened President Obama's economic policies to dropping "a lit match" into a "can of gasoline."

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The reason Huckabee's comments seem so familiar is because they are eerily reminiscent of Beck's unforgettable gag in April 2009 in which he claimed to be imitating Obama pouring gasoline -- which Beck later stated was water -- on an actor portraying "the average American." During his demonsration, Beck asked, "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire?"

Unfortunately, Huckabee's appearance on Your World With Neil Cavuto on Friday is evidence that Beck's bizarre and dangerous tactics have left their mark, and are being spread by other Fox commentators in his absence.

Fox repeatedly spread misinformation about a case brought by the National Labor Relations Board's office of general counsel alleging that Boeing retaliated against workers in Washington state who had previously gone on strike by moving work to South Carolina. One Fox News personality went so far as to call the case "the end of freedom in America."

In the midst of their coverage on a 8.9 magnitude earthquake and devastating tsunami in Japan, Fox News found an opportunity to push their message of "drill, baby, drill." During today's edition of Happening Now, host Jenna Lee cut away from the show's coverage on Japan to host Fox Business' Chris Cotter and then Wall Street Journal'sSteve Moore to discuss President Obama's then-upcoming remarks on the "rising energy prices." The segment quickly became a platform for Steve Moore to push for oil drilling in the United States.

STEVE MOORE: The president has been on the fence on that, about that about whether to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. But I would say this, Jenna, for consumers out there. I don't think that that has a big impact on the gasoline price. If the president were to tap into the Strategic Reserve it might lower gasoline prices by five cents at most, ten cents a gallon and very temporarily. I think the bigger issue is, Jenna, what are we doing longer term? As I said, why aren't we drilling everywhere where we have a potential to develop our own gas and oil resources? I mean, the way I put it is Jenna is that every time we can drill for oil here in the United States every barrel, that's one less barrel we have to get from these countries like Saudi Arabia, like Iran and Iraq, like Libya that some so much turmoil.

However, Moore is right about one thing - the "bigger issue is what we are doing in the long term." Unfortunately for Fox News and Moore, "drill, baby, drill" is just notgoingtocutit.

Fox News has failed to fully inform its viewers about the identities of guests it has hosted to criticize labor unions and the protests in Wisconsin. Fox has not disclosed guests' Republican Party activism in two instances and also hosted the CEO of a multinational company to criticize protesters for attacking "small businesses."

Fox marked the two-year anniversary of the enactment of President Obama's economic recovery package by attacking the bill and ignoring independent estimates, which have found that the stimulus significantly boosted gross domestic product and employment.